Can has yarn now plees?

FORGIVE ME!
In the madness of what we call "Christmas Knitting," I've been so rushed, I haven't even paused to consider posting stuff yet.
So pretty much, what I've got for you is a bunch of knitted up stuff that needs seaming, buttoning, weaving in of ends, or any/all of the above.

I'm currently working on finishing up a set of fingerless gloves for my cousins, Kelsey and Miranda.
Kelsey is partial to blue, always has been, and I wanted to work with cotton.
So, here's what I used for her gloves:

Basic notions box
Pattern notebook
Pencil
Needle gauge
Size 5 needles with row counter
SugarnCream cotton worsted yarn in Swimming Pool

This is a self-made pattern, similar to that I did my own gloves with, but for a much smaller hand (they're 10 and 12).

Cast on 30 sts.

K1P1 10 rows.

K3P3 20 rows.

K1P1 another 10 rows, Bind off.
Finish up, seam (still have to do this >.<)

So, I was way proud of how this pair turned out, but then I noticed this:

I'm going to assume its a twisted stitch, cause I don't know what else to call it.
No one notices it but me, but they aren't the perfect pair I thought them to be :/

Now, Miranda has always liked purple, so I took that and ran with it.

Same thing as Kelsey's pair, except the yarn is Hot Purple.
I knitted most of this pair in class, where I'm not allowed to have my cell phone, even just to take pictures, sorry :/
But here's the results:



And I have to kidnap my sister at some point during this week to get an idea of where I should leave the thumb gap in seaming.

I got sick to death of gloves, understandably.
So I was perusing the Craftster message boards, and saw a knitalong for a pattern called Calorimetry.
I checked it out, and found it to be absolutely adorable, and something both my cousins would wear.
So I made two ^.^

Miranda's came first, as a sort of guinea pig.
I altered the pattern from 120 sts to 80, just cause I tried the first row with 120, and it was GINORMOUS on me, let alone a 12 year old.

This is about halfway through.
I used a verigated skein's leftovers from a donated scarf. The ball leftover was about the size of a stunted kiwi, and I still have a little tiny bit left over, so I switched to some purple Red Heart for the second half.

And thus is the result ^.^

And Kelsey's was slightly easier, as I had the pattern memorized at that point.


It's not in me to make these with a solid color or just solid verigation, so I used green as the solid to compliment the green in another ball from my scrap basket.

I plan on making myself one in navy blue and maybe black between now and Tuesday.

But so, for the gloves, I need to weave in ends and seam.
For the Calio's, I need to weave in ends and sew on buttons so they can be worn.

It should be no big deal at all for me to knit myself one up before Tuesday night.
There's a blood drive at my school, and the wait for the last one was about 3 hours all told.
I'm not too concerned with it, though it'd be nice if they could find a vein straight off this time.
I've still got the needle scar from last time and had a bruise in a nice shade of green for about two weeks after *shrug*
Oh well.
It's worth it.

Success of the handwarming variety

Remember how I said I frogged that other pair of arm warmers?
Here's the result!
They were really simple to make.

On size 5 straight needles with worsted weight yarn:

CO 36 sts
Garter stitch 5 rows
K2p2 pattern for 35 rows
p2k2 for 5 rows
BO
Seam as needed, leaving a gap for the thumb.

Fun stuff, huh?

Past Projects

Well, I figured I might as well get all of my past works out of the way, so I'll post them now and tell a bit about them.


This was knitted on size 15 needles from Red Heart Symphony yarn (everything I've knitted with is either acrylic or novelty. I'm broke, and those whose knitting habit is fed solely on gifts can't be picky). It's about 5 feet long and 15 stitches wide. It's a bit light for my tastes, but one of my friends was raiding my yarn a few months ago and tried to steal it. This is for her.


I love this scarf. It is mine. It's roughly 8-9 feet long with a purple novelty yarn I got for Christmas last year. It's insanely soft, but the thicker strand of the yarn is soo warm. I think it might be chenille. The fringe is just purple fun fur. These were also knitted on my size 15s, as are nearly all of my scarves, and they're usually 10-15 stitches wide.


This scarf is large, comfy and warm. Knitted on various colors of Red Heart from my mom's plastic canvas stash (shhh) on size 15 needles, 25 stitches wide. It's about 8 feet long and you can use it as a shawl if you feel so inclined. The one flaw is that I had misplaced my row counter when I made it, so the sections aren't equal, but I love it anyway. I might eventually frog and redo it though, just to even it up some.


For someone from Michigan who wears t-shirts year-round, arm warmers are a must. These were my first patternless project, knit on size 6 needles with black Red Heart yarn. Nothing in the round (I have an intense hatred of dpns, mostly cause I can never get them to work right), I just knitted a large rectangle and seamed it up, leaving a gap for the thumb. I frogged these today, actually, and I'm currently working on a ribbed version that fits better.


Haha, three guesses as to what these are.
No? They're actually cat/fox/whatever ears. I got a crappy felt pair at this year's Youmacon, and I went and hunted down a pattern for my own. With a bit of tweaking, I should have enough to sell at next year's convention. My friend Melissa is getting a table for her artwork, which alone, most of the time, doesn't get much of a draw, but these should help add to it :). I just have to go out and find some headbands to attach them to somehow....


This little pretty is actually crocheted. I got bored in AP Government one day last year, and had a crochet hook on me for finishing up another project, which was long ago lost.
I grabbed a ball of yarn, keep in mind that I don't really know how to crochet, and this was the result.


Hoorah for slippers. They were knit on size 7 needles using Red Heart yarn in a nice shade of blue. They're too big, but my feet get really cold, so I usually wear them with 3 other pairs of socks, so they stay on nicely :)



More arm warmers. Knit on size 7s from the same yarn as the slippers. My own patter, a p2k1 rib with some stockinette on both ends. They fit quite nicely, and I left the thumb-hole out to maintain the shape of the ribbing. These are so comfy!

Well, that's all for now, I'll have to hunt down the rest of my work later to photograph it.

Fingerless Gloves...A failed attempt at sizing

So, I busted out some sage colored wool I had scavenged from a scarf kit I got last Christmas. The scarf in the pattern was ugly as sin, but I liked the yarn, so I kept it.
Well, I hunted up a pattern online (http://www.mlminspirations.com/patterns/KGMitts/index.html).
I hate dpns with a passion, mostly because I only have a set of 4 size 5 needles and every time I try to use them, I drop more stitches than I knit, so the fact that these gloves were knitted on straights was a godsend. I chose to knit on size 3 needles (my first mistake), but I cut out some stitches, opting for 58 instead of the 61 the pattern called for. Second mistake, I didn't knit a swatch, cause my sister stole my ruler.

I got a bit of the way into it, feeling pretty good about it so far. Looks pretty cool there, huh?
It's a simple k2p2 pattern for the ribbing with stockinette following it.

I got up to the second set of ribbing (it's ribbed on both sides for a snug fit).

And on to the casting off bit!
I was still under the impression that the stockinette portion would fit my hand like...well...a glove.

Now to seam it up!!! Hooray! I have a glove!
Or so I thought.
I seamed it up...and it didn't fit.

My hand swims in it.
So what have I learned?
Swatch. Follow the pattern. Use the right weight yarn. Don't be a moron.
I'll probably frog this glove and make one that's just straight ribbing.
My school is a meat-locker.
Good thing I tried it on before making the mate, right?

First Post Jitters

So, it's Thanksgiving break, and I'm procrastinating.
What should I do?
Scholarship applications? Nah.
World History homework? Why bother?
Something truly productive? Come on now, who do you take me for?
So here I am starting a knitblog.
I don't have my work photographed yet.
In fact, I'll never see the vast majority of my knitting again (for example, that scarf I knit last December for my ex-boyfriend's mother).
Oh well.
I'll have photos up of what I can rummage up soon enough :)